My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
Who is to guard the guards themselves?
There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.
The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time... The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.
In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.
Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.
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